Ron Filipkowski:
"I don’t post good polls.
I don’t post bad polls.
That’s because the polling industry today is garbage.
Polls are media-created “news” to generate content and controversy when they could be doing real work like covering actual news."
"I don’t post good polls.
I don’t post bad polls.
That’s because the polling industry today is garbage.
Polls are media-created “news” to generate content and controversy when they could be doing real work like covering actual news."
10:06 AM - Apr 28, 2024
Bernie Sanders:
“Mr Netanyahu... do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal policies of your extremist and racist government… It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable for your actions.”
“Mr Netanyahu... do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal policies of your extremist and racist government… It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable for your actions.”
12:32 PM - Apr 27, 2024
"We seek to liberate Judaism from an ethnostate that wants Jews to be perennially afraid, that wants our children to be afraid, that wants us to believe the world is against us so that we go running to its fortress... it’s not just Netanyahu, it’s the world he made and that made him – it’s Zionism."
11:06 AM - Apr 27, 2024
5 Threaded Spouts
RIP Mike Pinder
"Mike was a natural born musician who could play any style of music with warmth and love. His re-imagining and rebuilding (literally) of the Mellotron gave us our identifiable early sound. He was a huge part of my own musical journey. My sincere condolences..." -Justin Hayward
"Mike was a natural born musician who could play any style of music with warmth and love. His re-imagining and rebuilding (literally) of the Mellotron gave us our identifiable early sound. He was a huge part of my own musical journey. My sincere condolences..." -Justin Hayward
02:05 PM - Apr 26, 2024
8 Threaded Spouts
I don't believe there has been a more consequential post from American history professor Heather Cox Richardson than this one...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 25, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
“I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S. Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as ‘an official act,’” lawyer Marc Elias, whose firm defends democratic election laws, wrote today on social media. He added: “I am in despair that s..
09:55 AM - Apr 26, 2024
Nothing new, but Republican antics seem to get worse every day...
06:36 PM - Apr 24, 2024
60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution... Plastic production has doubled since the beginning of 2000 and studies show only 9% of plastic is being recycled... The top 5 companies were responsible for 24% of the branded plastic.
02:13 PM - Apr 24, 2024
4 Threaded Spouts
"Adam and his wife, Ola, have suffered losses on a scale their friends and neighbors in New Jersey can scarcely imagine: In Adam’s family alone, his surviving relatives have told him that 122 immediate and extended family members have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, he said in early April...
nytimes.com
01:18 PM - Apr 24, 2024
7 Threaded Spouts
Nick Kristof:
"For me, watching as I reported from Israel and the West Bank, it felt ineffably sad, like a rerun of the invasion of Iraq: the delusions about a quick victory, the disregard for civilian lives, the lack of a local partner to establish order, the excessive optimism about outcomes...
"For me, watching as I reported from Israel and the West Bank, it felt ineffably sad, like a rerun of the invasion of Iraq: the delusions about a quick victory, the disregard for civilian lives, the lack of a local partner to establish order, the excessive optimism about outcomes...
12:37 PM - Apr 24, 2024
Four years before Columbia in '68, there was Berkeley in '64... 60 years ago this fall.
08:41 PM - Apr 23, 2024
Little has changed in the House Kremlin Caucus since last week. It still appears highly likely that, if #EmptyGreene makes good on her threat to call for a vote to vacate the Speaker's chair, we'll learn she can't count & if she doesn't call for the vote we'll know she doesn't count. #GOPfail
02:09 PM - Apr 23, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
"The mission of a university is to coach students how to learn, not tell them what to think. It is to invite debate, not suppress it. Truth is a process and method — more verb than noun... Whenever university presidents have brought in the police... all learning has stopped...
01:44 PM - Apr 23, 2024
David Rothkopf.
I'm a Jew-loving Jew. Anti-Semitism is never ok. Here's what is not anti-Semitism: Peaceful protest, criticism of the Israeli government, calling for an independent Palestine, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, using the term apartheid to describe Israel, questioning Zionism.
I'm a Jew-loving Jew. Anti-Semitism is never ok. Here's what is not anti-Semitism: Peaceful protest, criticism of the Israeli government, calling for an independent Palestine, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, using the term apartheid to describe Israel, questioning Zionism.
12:12 PM - Apr 22, 2024
5 Threaded Spouts
The massive Columbia University protests followed by a police riot helped radicalize a generation of students and inspired a book and movie called The Strawberry Statement. The University later sided with the student protesters and put in place guidelines to prevent another police riot. However...
popular.info
Columbia University protests and the lessons of "Gym Crow"
In the early morning hours of April 30, 1968, then-Columbia University President Grayson Kirk summoned the NYPD to arrest hundreds of student protestors. About 1,000 police officers arrived on campus and, wielding nightsticks, violently arrested about 700 students. Almost 150 protesters ended up in ..
06:34 PM - Apr 22, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
This is big. Mike Johnson is breaking free from the Russians, especially MTG...
MJ: “I really believe the intel and the briefings that we’ve gotten. I believe that Xi and Vladimir Putin and Iran really are an axis of evil. I think they are in coordination on this...
MJ: “I really believe the intel and the briefings that we’ve gotten. I believe that Xi and Vladimir Putin and Iran really are an axis of evil. I think they are in coordination on this...
11:04 AM - Apr 20, 2024
If you have an account on POST NEWS, please extend an invitation to Spoutible. To the Spoutible helpers, expect new accounts to ask questions. We are here with open arms.
10:22 AM - Apr 19, 2024
“Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don’t, then you are wasting your time on Earth.”
-Roberto Clemente
-Roberto Clemente
12:56 PM - Apr 16, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
This is what competition is all about. One company can’t slack off and sell its merchandise at a higher price. The problem these days is that large companies are buying their competition allowing them to skimp on quality and jack up prices…
12:53 PM - Apr 16, 2024
The Big Steal continues to be Republicans suppressing the Democratic vote allowing Republican candidates to take office. Of course it happened in a big way in the POTUS elections of Y2K and 2016, supported by the SCOTUS. Democrats must be more proactive.
10:20 AM - Apr 15, 2024
Once you realize that both Trump and his MAGA Republicans work for Russia, not America, everything they do makes sense.
04:31 PM - Apr 12, 2024
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
11:22 PM - Apr 14, 2024
3 Threaded Spouts
"Some speculate that we are witnessing the last days of the American empire, much as the Romans watched their empire crumble 1,600 years ago. But... we can plant the seeds of a positive and hopeful world where future generations will live—the beginning of the next civilization, the post-oil era...
11:48 AM - Apr 14, 2024
"Peer petitioned the EPA to designate PFAS as hazardous waste, a designation that would require “cradle to grave” regulation. But the EPA instead has proposed listing the chemicals as “hazardous constituents”, which does not require additional oversight."
09:59 AM - Apr 11, 2024
“There’s no ambiguity about the data. So really, it’s a question of attribution.”
01:00 AM - Apr 11, 2024
Kevin Cresci got an excellent shot of totality over the Adirondacks on Monday 🙂
06:26 PM - Apr 10, 2024
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12:11 PM - Apr 10, 2024
35 years ago today... I never let my hair down in public, but I was feeling free on that first day of a 6-month journey along the AT. 🙂
03:56 PM - Apr 06, 2024
Western NY is predicted to have 60-80% cloud cover during Monday's eclipse. Hopefully it won't be that bad on the eastern edge of Lake Ontario.
12:15 PM - Apr 06, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
"Dunlap was the early and loudest proponent of shareholder capitalism — the idea that a corporation’s sole purpose is to maximize shareholder value — in contrast to stakeholder capitalism, which holds that corporations had responsibilities to their employees, their communities, and the nation...
03:59 PM - Apr 05, 2024
